“That question of real, tangible relationships was something that had been flitting around in my head for a while,” she told Harper’s Bazaar while discussing finding unexpected parallels with her character.

And while fans of the show – based on a novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman – were thrust into the violent world of ancient gods roaming present day America, it seems Yetide was thrust into her explicit role from the off too.

“It was interesting when I first read it, because it was my audition scene,” she told IGN as the show premiered.

And she again emphasised that the shock scene says more about real world relationships than not.

“The thing that initially drew me was this, was this absolute struggle for connection. And in this day and age, I mean, there's a New York Times article that's talking about how this generation is having less sex, you know.”

She continued: “And beyond that, there's more articles about how there's less intimacy.

“The way that people are interacting seems to be kind of a little more stilted now, and kind of filtered through this cold medium.

“So in that short scene, that search of really wanting to connect with that other person, really missing what that was, that place, that we all still remember, at least at this point,” she reasoned.